On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 09:27 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Just further to this, on my system if ~/Desktop has a .desktop file > in it that is a link to a /usr/share sub-folder, the permissions tab > in properties correctly says I don't have access to the file being > linked to, but if I change any of the properties and try to save the > changes I get an access violation message on ~/Desktop, which is > rubbish as the soft link in ~/Desktop is owned by me. The error > message should say I don't have access to the file that is linked to. That's going to depend on the tool you're using (how well thought out it was). When acting on a link you could either (a) modify the link, (b) follow the link and act on what it points to.
One's quite obvious what to do in some circumstances: I probably want to edit a file I linked to with a text editor. I probably want to see info about a linked file when listing a directory or viewing file permissions. Other time's less so: I probably want to modify the permissions of a link, but not always. I'm always a bit dubious about deleting a link. I don't want the tool to delete the file it links to. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
